Tas. 4744. 
BERBERIS concrinna, Look. fil. 
Neat Berberry. 
Nat. Ord. BERBERIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA MonoGynIa. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra Tas. 4308.) 
BERBERIS concinna; fruticulus demissus, cespitosus, ramosissimus, spinis gra- 
cilibus tripartitis, foliis parvis obovatis aristatis grosse spinuloso-dentatis 
coriaceis margine incrassatis superne leete viridibus subtus albo-glaucis, pe- 
dicellis solitariis (rarius binis) unifloris (rarius bifloris), sepalis exterioribus 
interioribus dimidio minoribus, baccis magnis oblongis, stigmate sessili, 
seminibus 5-8. J.D.H. 
A very beautiful and distinct little species, allied to the B. 
Sibirica, also a single-flowered plant, but readily distinguished 
by the long tripartite spines, slender pedicels, and glaucous 
leaves; the latter, however constant a character in both our wild 
and cultivated specimens, is not a constant one In other species 
of the genus, and hence may prove variable in this. The seeds 
were gathered from small bushes growing ™ the Lachen valley 
of the Sikkim-Himalaya, at an elevation of 12,000 to 13,000 feet ; 
it there formed a small low bush, one to three feet high, with 
spreading almost prostrate branches, thickly covered with small 
nowy-white and 
leaves of a deep-green hue, and polished above, s 
glaucous below; these colours, the large oblong scarlet berries, 
and red branchlets giving the shrub a singularly neat and pretty 
appearance when in fruit. The specimens 10 the Royal Gardens 
at Kew have come up perfectly resembling wild ones, and flourish 
luxuriantly in an open border. : ; 
Dzscr. Branches spreading, slender, deeply furrowed, covered — 
with red or grey bark.’ Spies slender, tripartite, spreading. 
Leaves an inch long and less, obovate, rounded at the tip and 
aristate, surrounded by spinulose teeth, margm thickened, upper 
surface bright glossy-green, under glaucous : pee — 
OCTOBER Ist, 1853. 
